IN the midst of a beer shortage in NSW during 1948, hundreds of people stood and watched in horror as more than 1,000 gallons of beer disappear down a Lithgow creek. When Terry’s Brewery, in the coal mining centre of… Read More ›
Breweries
One of Australia’s first boutique brewery pubs: Fremantle’s Sail & Anchor
THE Freemasons’ Hotel, was constructed in 1901–1903. It replaced the hotel that was originally constructed on the site in 1854 for Nicholas Paterson and Anthony Cornish. In 1901, James Gallop purchased the Freemasons’ Hotel property and commissioned architect Frederick William… Read More ›
No refills while on strike…
THESE beer barrels, which were being returned to the Sydney breweries, formed a section of the cargo stacked on King’s Wharf [Sydney Harbour] yesterday after wharf labourers, engaged in loading the Mulubinba, were withdrawn by their union. The development followed… Read More ›
Majestic gum tree was destined for the brewery
This magnificent eucalypt tree in the Mount Barker District of South Australia was doomed to destruction. The Adelaide Observe newspaper reported on January 11 1919 that the tree had been sold to be cut up into staves for beer barrels…. Read More ›
The 1948 beer strike left Sydney dry and thirsty
By MICK ROBERTS © A STRIKE of brewery maintenance workers in 1948, just as Sydney was showing some signs of recovery from beer shortages and rationing during and after World War II, had a profound impact on the working class… Read More ›
The Newnham Brothers: Pioneer brewers
By MICK ROBERTS © THE Newnhams were linked to arguably Australia’s most famous brewery, so a drunken church warden making a scene at one of the three brewers’ funeral in 1862, was a likely epitaph to their largely untold story…. Read More ›